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Rowan Callick is a double Walkley Award winner and a Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year. He has worked and lived in Papua New Guinea, Hong Kong and Beijing.

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TAIPEI, TAIWAN - JANUARY 11: Tsai Ing-Wen waves after addressing supporters following her re-election as President of Taiwan on January 11, 2020 in Taipei, Taiwan. Tsai Ing-Wen of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has been re-elected as Taiwans president as voters displayed their disapproval of Beijing by opting for a leader who had campaigned on defending their country from China. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

Taiwan victory a headache for Xi

The crushing electoral victory of President Tsai Ing-wen doubles the trouble for the Chinese leader.

Rowan Callick

commentaryInquirer

Mine shafted Bougainville’s hopes

Bougainville’s narrative of battles and neglect naturally frames its options today. It is a long and complex one.

Rowan Callick

InquirerInquirer

In this Nov. 29, 2019, photo, the Upe members vote at a men-only voting booth in the Bougainville referendum in Teau, Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. All across the Pacific region of Bougainville, people have been voting in a historic referendum to decide if they want to become the worldâ€™s newest nation by gaining independence from Papua New Guinea. (Jeremy Miller, Bougainville Referendum Commission via AP)

Real cost of independence

The referendum in Bougainville brings risks and opportunities for Australia and China.

Rowan Callick

inquirerInquirer

TOPSHOT - Police fire tear gas to disperse bystanders in the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong on November 10, 2019. - Hong Kong's police watchdog is unequipped to investigate the force's handling of months of pro-democracy protests, a panel of international experts appointed by the city's own government has found. Hong Kong has been upended by five months of huge and increasingly violent rallies, but Beijing has refused to give in to most of the movement's demands. (Photo by Philip FONG / AFP)

The Great China Conundrum

It isn’t easy to pursue our interests and protect our values, but we need to learn to do both.

Rowan Callick

LeadershipLeadership

21/1/19: Oil Search CEO Peter Botten ahead of him receiving an Australia Day honour this weekend.

Botten’s PNG legacy

After more than 25 years as Oil Search CEO, Peter Botten departs leaving a major legacy in PNG.

Rowan Callick

70th anniversaryInquirer

TOPSHOT - A Chinese paramilitary policeman stands in front of a portrait of late communist leader Mao Zedong at Tiananmen Gate in Beijing on September 20, 2019. (Photo by NOEL CELIS / AFP)

The life of the party state

Would Chinese people have become more prosperous if the communists had not won?

Rowan Callick

The Deal

Titles selected by our specialist writers on China

Black, white and red all over

Our experts nominate their favourite China books.

Glenda Korporaal, Rowan Callick and Richard McGregor

The Deal

DEAL SEP 2019 NO REUSE WITHOUT PERMISSIONFEE APPLIESHigh rise in China Pic : Alamy

Living the dream

Members of China’s emerging middle class eat in restaurants, order pizzas at home, drive their own cars and holiday overseas.

Rowan Callick

CommentaryWorld

FILE - In this June 29, 2019, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, western Japan. Facing another U.S. tariff hike, Xi is getting tougher with Washington instead of backing down. Both sides have incentives to settle a trade war that is battering exporters on either side of the Pacific and threatening to tip the global economy into recession. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Beware pushing Xi too far

The message that China’s mainstream media is delivering is clear: see what happens when China’s ‘sacred’ unity is fractured.

Rowan Callick

commentaryEconomics

This photo taken on June 26, 2019 shows a worker cleaning a glass in the terminal building of the new Beijing Daxing International Airport in Beijing. - Beijing is set to open an eye-catching multi-billion dollar airport resembling a massive shining starfish, to accommodate soaring air traffic in China and celebrate the Communist government's 70th anniversary in power. (Photo by STR / AFP) / China OUT

Changing tide of global relations

An array of assumptions long made about China and about its relations with Australia are coming under review.

Rowan Callick

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